DBWI: A Great War, not a Long War

OTL, the "Long War", the period from 1942 to 1997 (when a peace treaty was finally signed between Britain, France, and Germany and the two French government reunified) in which the United Kingdom, Greater German Reich, and Soviet Union struggled in a three way global geopolitical struggle, is actually somewhat surprising considering the attitudes Hitler and Churchill had before they went kaput.

Hitler OTL had plans to invade the Soviet Union following the fall of France, but by the time the French Government was driven to Algeria in early-1941 the war in the west had drained the German economy and war machine to the point that an eastern war was unfeasible. After Beppo Romer took out Hitler in 1942, Goerring was more interested in consolidating Europe than starting a war in the east. Britain and Free France meanwhile agreed to a temporary (55 year long) ceasefire following the liberation of Norway.

What if rather than 55 years of simmering conflict there had been a second Great War?
 
OOC: This is ASB. Stalin would have kept building up the Soviet Union and eventually crushed Germany in the 40s at some point.
 
You know, this has always been one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" moments in history. Quite literally,considering a good quarter of theAH field (mostly among the worse authors...) has something or another to do with A 2nd Great War. Personally, I subscribe to a scenario close to Robert Conroy's"Seasons of Sorrow" quadrology: Goerring dosen't equip the Luftwaffe with chemical-biological capsule bombs and threaten "Operation Lindisfarne" that spooked Churchill into talking terms. (Hard to fight in the hills when your face is burning off and you're puking your guts out) leading to an extended air war over the Eastern Med. once the hopelessly isolated Italian position in Libya was overrun by the Free French Armed de Liberte. This cranks up the pressure on Turkey, who's tugged in all three directions as the key to reopening up the land front, until the Soviets by trying to make a grab towards the Straits accidentally trigger the secret mutual security pacts both sides had signed and sets off the three way war.
 

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OOC: This is ASB. Stalin would have kept building up the Soviet Union and eventually crushed Germany in the 40s at some point.

OOC: No. Stalin doesn't strike me as the type who would risk it. And even if he does, the Soviets might very well lose. Without Lend and Lease against the Germans on their hometurf is going to be nasty. The WAllies would be the laughing third man and that is precisely why Stalin would never do this.
 
If Hitler had stayed in power and decided to invade the soviet union, would the madascar plan have still happened?
Maybe the jews would have been deported to an other place like the dominion of Palestine or something like that
 
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